self directed brief evaluation
As part of the learning agreement i had write myself a brief, this was by no means easy and the writing the brief took quite a while for me to complete. I started by thinking about what camera i most enjoyed using, which turned out to be the medium format Hasselblad 507. Then i thought about myself and what i enjoy. I have always found it easier to converse with and befriend females, and out this came the title Ladies. So i now had a title for the project and started writing the actual brief. Turns out this was a lot easier than i was making it be, and was just a matter of chopping up and rewording the actual brief. So i finally got that sorted/botched together and started researching medium format portraiture. Having researched i moved on to the shooting of the actual photo's. This where it all started going wrong as i made simple mistakes which led to having to re-shoot, so i started the re-shoot. The idea behind the shoots was to keep them simple using only natural lighting and the same backdrop across all of the different shoots. This simplicity idea, actually made things a little difficult  as their are only so many daylight hours in the day and the light had to be good. When i finally got the a shoot done i processed one of the films, and found out i needed to over developer by at least 5 minuets because the negatives were coming out a bit thin. After all these problems it was getting close to deadline and i still had film to develop and prints to make, i need to rush things along a bit and didn't want this to affect my final prints so i stopped back later than i usually would to get my film developed and prints made. I was confident in my print making skills and believe this to be one of my strongest area's, while making the final prints i sore from my contact sheets that they didn't need a lot of work and i could enhance my original idea by simply having the prints viewed in a certain way. The subject seem to be looking at themselves, from one print to another. If i had the chance to redo this i would take more time when shooting and not try to rush things.

Ladies final prints 

This came out a self directed project, it was a challenge to say the least being the first self written brief. So i thought about me, and the fact that iv always got on better with females than i have males and that brought about whats here.

Really happy with the outcome, all came together a bit last minuet but don't all the best things? 

  

Kristal Rutty 

Rochelle Oliphant 

Steph Reed 

Rose Llewellyn

the ideas is that they are viewing themselves being themselves, which you can not really see from the way they are layed out on here.

 

Steve Pyke

the black backdrop works well with the natural lighting, the tight focus on the face also works well
contasty and gritty

Steve Pyke

i realy like his use of natural lighting, the idea that this makes things simple is also great
but in practice this is not always the case as you can never control the weather

http://hungryeyemagazine.com/the-daily-eyephotographer-steve-pykediscusss-his-approachto-his-still-life-imagespart-one/

Irving Penn
theirs an air of mystery to this shot, half his face is in shadow and the high collar and hat all add to it

http://www.photographyoffice.com/2011/01/classic-fashion-and-celebrity-photography-by-irving-penn/

Irving Penn
http://www.photographyoffice.com/2011/01/classic-fashion-and-celebrity-photography-by-irving-penn/

the focus here is clear as everything else falls away and fades to black, her face stays prominent and theirs a real connection between the viewer and the subject through the eyes

 JFK
Richard Avedon
 you only get to photograph people like this by being one of the best at what you do, and Avedon is that and more. all taken with a medium format camera



Marilyn Monroe

























                                               Tilda Swinton






http://ffffound.com/home/dolan/post/
http://malengall.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/richard-avedon.html
http://loveisspeed.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/richard-avedon-photographydivine.html

Richard Avedon
http://youthvoices.net/discussion/richard-avedon
Avedon probably the best known medium format photographer
love the contrast-y-ness to this shot it adds a real sense of grittiness that Avedon achieves a lot of the time, also the blank white backdrop brings the subject forward and makes him stand out

Irving Penn
http://www.shotnlust.com/Irving-Penn

portrait by Irving Penn, it is a close up shot and there is balance between the light and shadows that creates harmony . i assume its medium format.

 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1822263/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

MOONBUG

About Steve Pyke and his journey across america to photograph astronauts and people who have walked on the moon.
given this to watch and all i was told was that it was about steve pyke, i found it to be Informative and compelling, helps to think about my style and developing my style by watch him.